Venture Capital

[ad_1] Venture firms are funding fewer startups, mostly in selected places. If yours is outside the promised land that is Silicon Valley, business development companies might be your best bet for funding. April 4, 2018 7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. By nature, startups are …

[ad_1] It’s the often unseen trigger — that invisible ‘something’ — that gets them to bite. Seek it, use it, close the deal. April 2, 2018 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It was an unusually warm February afternoon, and my co-founder and I were sitting …

[ad_1] Learn from the entrepreneur’s successes — and his mistakes. March 23, 2018 8 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If there’s one person who embodies the idea of “entrepreneur,” it’s Elon Musk. He has been responsible for the development of a large number of high-profile …

[ad_1] Venture capital firms are using machine learning to make their investment decisions. Here’s how to use AI for better business insights and better access to funds. February 23, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Any current discussion of artificial intelligence in the workforce …

[ad_1] There are two fundamentally different kinds of entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter which you are, so long as you know which you are. February 21, 2018 8 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes, from all kinds of backgrounds, and …

[ad_1] You can thrive with a little help from your friends. February 20, 2018 7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You have a startup, but you are at the point where you could use advice, direction and a little funding. That’s when you hear about …

[ad_1] Despite the New York Times’ report that we’re in the midst of a “startup slump,” a staggering percentage of startup leaders would say otherwise. When First Round asked founders whether they think now is a good time to start a business, 94 percent gave a resounding “yes,” according to the State of …

[ad_1] This story appears in the December 2017 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Q: I’m building my business. Should I search for venture funding, find an angel investor or just bootstrap it? — Peter R. Peter, if I had a dollar for every time I was asked that question, I could …

[ad_1] The past decade has seen a significant rise in startup ecosystems on a global level. From the U.S. to Israel to France, Brazil and India, the number of startups worldwide has exponentially increased. But the number of VCs? Not so much. Nowadays, fewer and fewer startups are obtaining venture capital …

[ad_1] Growing up in a small town in Russia, Valery Komissarova’s family was too poor to buy her a computer. But that didn’t stop her from pouring over ragged IBM manuals and PC books that her dad would bring home from work. “I loved reading them because I was always …